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WEDNESDAY 20TH APRIL 2011
NATION&WORLD
FLOODING in Pakistan in the latter
half of 2010, which disrupted the lives
of 20 million people, also affected the
country’s spiders.
Millions of spiders climbed into trees
to escape the rising floodwaters,
covering the branches in an eerie
cocoon of webs. There could also be a
health benefit from their work.
Britain’s department for international
development, which is providing aid
to the flood-devastated communities,
reports that where the spiders have
scaled the trees there have been far
fewer malaria-spreading mosquitos.
Reconstruction in the worst-hit areas is
expected to take many years. Read the
story by Duncan Geere at Wired UK
Silver lining spun
within spiderwebs
Mokbel mumbles into trap
TONY Mokbel was running a multi-million-dollar drug empire,
but he sounded less than suave when he left a bumbling phone
message trying to get out of a deal he had unwittingly set up with
undercover federal police.
Read Pia Akerman’s report in The Australian.
Mum’s diet alters baby
A WOMAN’s diet during pregnancy can alter her baby’s DNA
in the womb, increasing its risk of obesity, heart disease and
diabetes in later life, an international study has found.
Researchers said the study provided the first... Read more
Police raid Rio slum
BRAZILIAN police have swept through Rio de Janeiro’s largest
slum in a crackdown on drug-related crime, arresting 11 people
and seizing an estimated three tonnes of marijuana, officials say.
With a helicopter hovering overhead, 200 members... Read more
Last Supper wrong day
A CAMBRIDGE University professor has determined that the
Last Supper, the meal which Jesus Christ took part in before his
crucifixion, was not on Maundy Thursday, which was widely
believed for years. According to Professor Colin Humphreys, it was
on a Wednesday - April 1, A.D. 33, to be exact. Read more here.
Syria bows to protests
SYRIA’s government has
approved a bill to rescind a
decades-old emergency law
and agreed to abolish the state
security court, after weeks of
pro-democracy protests and
hundreds of deaths.
The cabinet on Tuesday also
approved a bill regulating
demonstrations, the state news
agency SANA reported, only hours after the interior minister
imposed a total ban on political gatherings and after... Read more
PM to visit tsunami area
AAP
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard
will arrive in Japan tonight for
talks with political and business
leaders and a likely tour of areas
hit hard by the devastating
tsunami.
Ms Gillard is due to land in
Tokyo, ahead of meetings
tomorrow with Emperor Akihito
and Empress... Read more
‘Kamikaze campaign’: Qantas
QANTAS chief executive Alan Joyce
has accused some unions of running
a “kamikaze campaign” that could
damage the airline as it faces serious
challenges from rising fuel prices.
The airline is preparing for potential
industrial action by engineers, pilots
and baggage handlers over pay and job
security. At the same time Qantas has
again increased the fuel surcharge on passengers.
Read Steve Creedy’s report in The Australian.
Plea for foreign troops
MARC BURLEIGH : AFP
A REBEL official in Libya’s
besieged city of Misrata
has pleaded desperately for
Britain and France to send
troops to help fight strongman
Muammar Gaddafi’s forces,
saying “if they don’t, we will
die.”
In the first request by any
insurgents for boots on the
ground, a senior... Read more
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